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C9 MUSIC

Setup

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Setup Guide
C9 Music Theme

Follow these steps in order, and you should be started with sample content, and a whole website full of sample content, theme settings, widgets, and menus to get you started loading in your own web content, videos, pictures, and text.

1 – From a fresh WordPress install click appearance > themes

From admin of a fresh WP installation, click Appearance > Themes
From admin of a fresh WP installation, click Appearance > Themes

2 – Click the add new button

Click Add New
Click Add New

3 – Click the “upload theme” button

Click Upload Theme

4 – Upload the theme zip file

Click on the Activate theme link

5 – Activate theme

Click on the Activate theme link

6 – Install the recommended plugins

Click the Begin installing plugins link

7 – Install the recommended plugins

Select the top checkbox to bulk install your plugins and then click install in the dropdown

8 – Activate the recommended plugins

Once complete, click return to plugins installer.
Select the top checkbox to bulk activate your plugins.

9 – Return to Dashboard

 Redirecting to C9 Blocks Quickstart Guide
Click return to dashboard link. If you’re redirected to WooCommerce, pick the classic installer.

10 – The C9 Blocks quickstart guide

 How to build landing pages with blocks

If you are not redirected to the C9 blocks Quickstart Guide, click C9 Blocks from the Appearance admin menu

Click Tools > Import to import sample content

12 – Install WordPress Importer

Install the WordPress importer

13 – Run importer and upload sample content xml file

14 – Upload sample content xml file (Optional)

If you’d prefer to start fresh, head to Appearance > Customize to import minimal sample content.

Upload sample content XML file. Download sample content at the beginning of the setup guide.

15 – Import authors (Optional)

Optionally import authors, and make sure to select “Download and import file attachments” so all of the content imports properly.

16 – Once the import is done, configure C9 Admin settings

If you install the C9 Admin plugin, you should now have a handy dashboard widget so you can make adjustments to the WordPress admin.

17 – C9 Admin Dashboard settings

Learn more about the C9 Admin Settings

18 – Click Appearance > Customize

C9 Music Customizer Settings

Site Identity

Logo enter in a logo for your site. We recommend using an SVG for logos so they’re always crisp on all screen sizes. If not, the recommended height and width of your logo should be an image that’s at least 92 pixels height by 286 pixels wide at 144dpi.

Site Title enter the title used for your site that is used for the title on pages

Tagline enter the tag line that shows up in the title bar on the homepage

Dark Logo enter in a dark version of your logo to be used on a light navbar background. (If this is the same as your light logo, you can enter the same logo in this field. We recommend using an SVG for logos so they’re always crisp on all screen sizes. If not, the recommended height and width of your logo should be an image that’s at least 92 pixels height by 286 pixels wide at 144dpi.

Site Icon creates all of the icons used by the browser, as well as bookmark icons on phones. We recommend a 512×512 PNG image at 144dpi for this icon that will look good on both dark and light backgrounds.

Branding

Use C9 Theme Fonts? If you plan on enqueuing your own fonts with a child theme or via CSS, you can set this to no so no additional font files are enqueued. If you’d like to use fonts from the theme, you are able to select a heading, subheading, and body paragraph font style for use in the C9 Blocks like the C9 Heading and C9 CTA Bar.

Colors

Select a background color. By default, the background color is white.

There are also color settings for the navigation, navigation links, and background colors for all drop-down menus, with sensible defaults set for each.

You can set theme colors using the C9 Blocks plugin by clicking on the feather icon in the upper right hand corner of the post or page edit screen to set your saved colors for re-use in block text colors, headings, background colors, and more. We’ve registered a few colors from the theme itself, and you can add your own custom palette colors by clicking on the Add Color button seen in the screen shot.

Background Image

Select your background image for the website.

Posts

Do you want to show or hide the author name on posts? Select whether or not to display author names on single posts. Default is to hide author names.

Display a sidebar on single posts? Show a sidebar on single blog posts on the right or left with widgets from the Appearance > Widgets widgetable area from the WordPress admin depending on your sidebar selection.

Display a sidebar on archive pages? Show a sidebar on the post index screen, tag, and archive pages with widgets from the Appearance > Widgets widgetable area from the WordPress admin depending on your sidebar selection.

Social media

Show or hide social media icons in the footer with URL fields for popular social networks and content networks

Footer

Display search in footer Show or hide the search field in the footer. We recommend showing this for accessibility reasons.

Copyright Input your copyright message for the footer.

Menus

Create menus for your theme using the built-in WordPress menus, or go big with Max Mega Menu, widgets, and custom navigation widgets like we did on this site.

Be sure to set a default menu. If you imported the sample content from this page, you should be able to set the Universal Top Navigation menu to the Top Navigation Menu Menu Location from the customizer so your top navigation shows up in the header.

Widgets > Footer

Select as many widgets as you’d like to display in your footer. We recommend showing 3-4 widgets in a single row for the best design in the footer. Widgets display in rows of 4, and break into single or double columns on mobile layouts depending on available screen space.

Homepage Settings

Your homepage displays A static page if you want to build your own homepage like we did on this site, or you can set it to a page you imported during the sample content import from above.

Homepage Set the Homepage to the Homepage that should have been imported during the sample content import.

Posts page Set this to the page on the site that will act as the archive for your blog post. If you imported the sample content from the C9 Work demo, set this to the News page.

WooCommerce (Optional)

If you plan to sell items on the site, or use an online catalog feature, you can activate WooCommerce and make adjustments to the settings for the Store Notice, Product Catalog, Product Images, and Checkout from within the customizer.

Additional CSS

Should you need to further customizer or tweak any of the visual elements of the site, you can enter in any custom CSS here, which will be applied inline to the theme between the <head> tags.

This theme makes use of Bootstrap v4. You can attach any Bootstrap class to additional class fields in any CSS field throughout WordPress and the C9 Starter theme.

Using C9 Blocks Plugin

If you haven’t, we highly recommend installing the C9 Blocks and C9 Admin Dashboard Plugins. For animations, and additional child theme features like a single page animated website, get on the C9 email list.

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